The Mprize

1. To give everyone the choice to live much longer healthier lives.

Health - Diseases and Disease Research

The Methuselah Mouse Prize (Mprize), administered by the Methuselah Foundation, is being offered to the scientific research team who develops the longest living Mus musculus, the breed of mouse most commonly used in scientific research. Developing interventions which work in mice is a critical precursor to the development of human anti-aging techniques, for once it is demonstrated that aging in mice can be effectively delayed or reversed, popular attitudes towards aging as 'inevitable' will no longer be possible. When aging in mice is shown to be 'treatable' the funding necessary for a full-line assault on the aging process will be made available. This is the true power of the Methuselah Mouse Prize, to demonstrate a proof of principle, and give hope to the world that decline in function and age-related disease are no longer guarantees, for us, or for future generations, if we work together now.

The SENS approach to defeating aging is described in detail for the non-specialist in the book "Ending Aging" by Dr. de Grey and his research assistant Michael Rae, which can be ordered at Amazon at this URL:
http://www.amazon.com/Ending-Agi...
All revenues from the sales of "Ending Aging" will go to the Methuselah Foundation to support SENS research.
http://www.methuselahfoundation....

Further information about the Mprize is available at the Mprize website:
http://www.mprize.org
You can also join the discussion by becoming a member of the Ending Aging Facebook Group:
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